<div dir="ltr">Dear developers,<div><br></div><div><br><div></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">In Quantum Espresso outputs, there are <code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(234,234,234);background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-radius:3px;display:inline">average # of iterations</code>printed after each SCF iteration.</p><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;margin-top:1.2em;margin-bottom:1.2em"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);overflow:auto;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0.5em 0.7em;display:block"> 365 Self-consistent Calculation
366
367 iteration # 1 ecut= 45.00 Ry beta= 0.40
368 Davidson diagonalization with overlap
369 ethr = 1.00E-02, avg # of iterations = 2.0
</code></pre><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">I looked into the source code, the comment says the avg_iter is <em>H*psi products</em></p><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;margin-top:1.2em;margin-bottom:1.2em"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);overflow:auto;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0.5em 0.7em;display:block">```
PW/src/c_bands.f90
237 REAL(KIND=DP), INTENT(INOUT) :: avg_iter
238 !! average number of H*psi products
</code></pre><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">However, it seems to present the number of other loops inside a SCF iteration:</p><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;font-size:1em;line-height:1.2em;margin-top:1.2em;margin-bottom:1.2em"><code style="font-size:0.85em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);overflow:auto;border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0.5em 0.7em;display:block">PW/src/c_bands.f90
242 REAL(KIND=DP) :: cg_iter, ppcg_iter, rmm_iter
243 ! (weighted) number of iterations in Conjugate-Gradient
244 ! (weighted) number of iterations in RMM-DIIS
</code></pre><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">So, How do the <em>H*psi products </em>related to the average number of iterations? How to interpret this number?</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em">Thanks and regards,</p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#999999"><b>Ziang Zhang</b></font><div><div><font color="#999999"><br></font></div><div><font color="#999999">Ph.D. Student in Applied Physics</font></div><div><font color="#999999">Computational Physics & Materials Science Lab<br></font></div><div><font color="#999999">Physical Science and Engineering Division</font></div><div><font color="#999999">3254-WS12, Building 3</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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